Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Warrior Connected to War on Cash?

Overnight, Modi’s government de facto
outlawed an estimated 86 percent of all cash in circulation by value.
People had 50 days to hand in the notes or they become worthless. Yet
the government, despite stating it would issue new, more secure 500Rs
and 1000Rs bills, had nowhere near the equivalent value of new notes
ready for replacement. They say it may take up to a year to print
enough, which means confiscation, de facto. Faked opinion polls with
slanted questions done only via smart phone apps of which only 17% of
the population has access, claimed that “90% of Indians approve” the demonetization.

Yet it’s far worse. India is an
underdeveloped country, the largest in the world in population terms
with more than 1.3 billion people. By demanding Indians turn in all
500Rs and 1,000Rs bills to banks, Modi is forcing major change in how
Indians control their money in a country high on the corruption scale
where few trust government let alone private banks, and prefer to deal
strictly in cash or hoard gold for value. Nearly half the population,
some 600 million Indians, do not hold a bank account and half of those,
some 300 million Indians, lack a government identification, necessary to
open an account.

When he presented his shock
announcement, Modi pitched it in terms of going after India’s black
economy. Soon he shifted gears and was praising the benefits of a
“cash-less society” to enable Indians to enter the digital age,
appealing to younger Indians, savvy in smart phones and digital
networks, to convince the older of the benefits of online banking and
consuming. The drastic demonetization declaration was planned by Modi
and five other inner-circle ministers in complete secrecy.

It illuminated the United States role in advancing a cashless society:

The Modi cash-less India operation is a project of the US National
Security Council, US State Department and Office of the President
administered through its US Agency for International Development (USAID).

Astonishingly, the report, prepared for
USAID by something called the Global Innovation Exchange, admitted that
“97% of retail transactions in India are conducted in cash or check; Few
consumers use digital payments. Only 11% used debit cards for payments
last year. Only 6% of Indian merchants accept digital payments…Only 29
percent of bank accounts in India have been used in the last three months.” The US and Indian governments knew very well what shock they were detonating in India.

The Global Innovation Exchange includes
such dubious member organizations as the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation, a major donor to the Modi war on cash initiative of USAID.
It also includes USAID itself, several UN agencies including UNICEF,
UNDP, UNHCR. And it includes the US Department of Commerce and a spooky
Maclean, Virginia military contractor called MITRE Corporation whose
chairman is former CIA Director, James Rodney Schlesinger, a close
associate of Henry Kissinger.

PEU Report recalled MITRE from a 2009 piece pushing Obama appointee Ashton Carter as an outsider, when basic research showed him to be the consummate insider. At the time Carter was a PEU:

Senior
Partner for Global Technology Partners, a defense oriented investment
firm. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the MITRE
Corporation.

Obama's Pentagon Chief was on the board of a spooky beltway military contractor pushing a cashless society. For seventeen years Ash Carter served on MITRE's board. Between Pentagon stints Carter joined the Markle Foundation to assist their Economic Future initiative. The 2014 press announcement stated:

"The addition of Dr. Carter will strengthen our efforts to help
Americans at all income levels transition to the economy of the future."

Does cashless fit into Markle's future? Cashless societies were the topic du jour at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos. Carter spoke at the 2016 WEF meeting stressing the need for technology and partnerships to keep America and the globe secure.

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